FFmpeg took slightly longer in Fedora 11, but the results were
still close.

C-Ray's performance has regressed in Fedora 11 and has yet to
be corrected in Rawhide. Fedora 9 and 10 took roughly the same amount of time
for this simple ray-tracing test to complete (just over 210 seconds), but with
Fedora 11 and later it is now taking about 240 seconds with this Intel Core 2
Duo setup. This problem can be easily replicated by running phoronix-test-suite
benchmark c-ray.

While C-Ray had regressed, POV-Ray had improved. Quite a bit of
time was shaved off POV-Ray's run-time between Fedora 10 and 11, when there was
the switch to GCC 4.4 and the newer Linux kernel.

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